kapucínský klášter v Mnichově Hradišti Monastery

The Capuchin monastery in Munich Hradiště is packed in a close neighbourhood of the Renaissance, later in the barbed chateau Mnichovo Hradiště. It is an interesting example of the baroque style development in outskirts, where the modesty of ordinary capital life collides with the ambitions of noble patrons. The core of his identity is the Church of the Holy Three Kings with the adjacent chapel of St. Anne - a building typical of the spiritual architecture of the early 18th century.

The monastery was founded in 1697, at the time it was working on its main construction. Construction of the Holy Church The Three Kings were taken up in 1694 and lasted until 1699 according to the project of a member of the order of P. Jiří of Munich. Capuchins built what their order always preferred: a simple, without decorative elements built complex. The monastery, consisting of three wings surrounding the centre of the Court, was directly connected to the presbytery of the church, creating a functional whole. It was this architect's ultimate modesty that was part of Capuchin spirituality - the order based itself on poverty and simplicity.

A quarter of a century later, in 1723 to 1724, the pious owner of the estate of Marie Markéta of Valdštejn (born Cernine) had the church built a richly decorated Baroque chapel of St. Anne. The building was connected to the Church of the Three Kings. About sixty years later, Vincenc z Waldstein-Wartenbergu (1731-1797) had the chapel rebuilt into a family tomb - attached an editorial niche with columns and coats of arms in the shield and modified the interior. Let him bury himself here with his wife, but he also did so by protecting the remains of his famous ancestor, Emperor General Albrecht of Valdstein and his wife Lucrezia. They were transported from the Carthusian monastery in Valdice, which died as a result of the Yosefin reforms. In 1934, when they commemorated three hundred years since Albrecht's death, they placed on his grave a tombstone made of red-brown marble by the Liberec sculptor Karl Kolaczek. The tomb served the family until 1923.

The Baroque statue of St. Anne by sculptor Josef J. Jelinek, carved in 1713, stands outside the monastery.

Since 1966, the monastery church has become home to the lapidarium of Central Bohemian Baroque sculpture. The walls are decorated with approximately fifty sculptures, mostly sandstone - most often by masters of Matyas Bernard Braun, František Ignác Platzer and Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff, and especially by the sculptor family Jelínky of Kosmonos. This collection makes the monastery a place where the visitor meets the hands of these great Czech artists.